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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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