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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

