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
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

