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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
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
Old Brewery In Preston