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
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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