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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

