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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
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
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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