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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
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...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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