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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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