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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

