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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Exploring Ottawa
Donโt you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...

