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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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