The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Twin Cities Area
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

