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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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