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
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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