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
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

