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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the JamesโYounger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
โOnce upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

