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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown