Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Twin Cities Area
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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