Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
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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...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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