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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown