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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

