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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...

