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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

