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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

