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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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