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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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