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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

