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
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston