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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery is located at the foot of a bluff on the banks of the Root River. Brewing...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
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
