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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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