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 Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Franconia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

