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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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