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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluthโs Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindstrรถm. It is the oldest...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

