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 Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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