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 Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
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
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City