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
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
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...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

