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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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