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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

