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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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