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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
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