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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

