Twin Cities Area

Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel

It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...

Women’s City Club In St Paul

One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...

Greater Minnesota

The Wreck of the Arthur Orr

The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...