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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesotaโs smallest town. The 2010 census...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

