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
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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