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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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