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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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
Old Brewery In Preston