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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If youโve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdingerโs grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesotaโs biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

