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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After 120 years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening of July 29th, 1895...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

