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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. Itโs dwarfed by the...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...

