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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...

