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
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...

