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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
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
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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