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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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