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
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Brewery In Preston
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

