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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

