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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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