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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

