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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
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