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
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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