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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown