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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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