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
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

