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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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