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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Not much has changed at this house in Duluth. It looks pretty much the same as it did when it was...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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