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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

