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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...
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...

