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 Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy OโBrien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

