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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...

