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
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
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...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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