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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

