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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
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...
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

