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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didnโt know where I was. I certainly didnโt...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
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...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdingerโs grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

