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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

