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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

