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
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

