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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

