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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
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 Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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