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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In 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