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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordwayโknown by her nickname, Sallyโwas born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesotaโs biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

