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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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