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...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
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