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
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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