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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

