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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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