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
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordwayโknown by her nickname, Sallyโwas born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...

