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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
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