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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
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