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
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

