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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome to Hanska
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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