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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdingerโs grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...

