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...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

