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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Dead Good Walks
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
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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