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
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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