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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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