It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

