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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
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 The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown