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...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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