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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

