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...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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