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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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