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
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
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
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

