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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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