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...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

