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...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

