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