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 Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butlerโs interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

