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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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