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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Historic Wasioja
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
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...
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

