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...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

