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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
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...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

