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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
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...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

