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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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