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
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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