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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordwayโknown by her nickname, Sallyโwas born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butlerโs interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

