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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

