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
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
World-renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in an apartment on the second floor of this...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery is located at the foot of a bluff on the banks of the Root River. Brewing...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordwayโknown by her nickname, Sallyโwas born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

