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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

