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 and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown