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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
Ruins of Sawyer School
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

