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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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