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
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

