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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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