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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

