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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

