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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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