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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

