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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

