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
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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