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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

