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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

