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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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