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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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