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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
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