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
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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...

