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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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