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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown