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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdingerโs grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his motherโs death in 1905...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

