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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

