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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
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
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

