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
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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...
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