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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

