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
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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