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
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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