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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia 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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor 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