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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
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
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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