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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

