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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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