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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After 120 years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening of July 29th, 1895...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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