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
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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...

