Twin Cities Area

Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel

It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...

Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul

Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...

Greater Minnesota

Historic Wasioja

Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...

Historic Franconia

Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...