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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

