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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

