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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasnโt until...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his motherโs death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordwayโknown by her nickname, Sallyโwas born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

