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...
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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