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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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