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 Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown