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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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