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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

