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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
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
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
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