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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

