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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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