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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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