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
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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