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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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