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
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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