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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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