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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

