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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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