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
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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