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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

