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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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