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
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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...

