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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

