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
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

