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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

