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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

