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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

