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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
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 Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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