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
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Dead Good Walks
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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