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
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

