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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

