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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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