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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

