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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Cobden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

