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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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