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...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
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
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

