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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

