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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

