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 Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

