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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown