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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdingerโs grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
Itโs clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy OโBrien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

