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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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