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