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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

