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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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