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...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
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