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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didnโt take long for...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

