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 the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesotaโs biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

