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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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