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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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