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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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