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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
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...
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
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
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