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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston