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...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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