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

