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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

