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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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