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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

