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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
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