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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

