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...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdingerโs grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordwayโknown by her nickname, Sallyโwas born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

