It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul