Twin Cities Area

Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel

It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...

Greater Minnesota

Historic Franconia

Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...

Mudbaden Sulphur Springs

In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...