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 Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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