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 Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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