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
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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