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
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

