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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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