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...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown