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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In 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