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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
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
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
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