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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
Itโs clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...

