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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

