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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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...
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
Old Brewery In Preston