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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown