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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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