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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

