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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
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