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
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

