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
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...

