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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his motherโs death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

