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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown