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
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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