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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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