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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Randall Cooperative Creamery
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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...

