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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesotaโs biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy OโBrien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

