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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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