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
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordwayโknown by her nickname, Sallyโwas born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesotaโs biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

