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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

