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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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