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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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