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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

