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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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