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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

