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
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

