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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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...
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