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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

