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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...

