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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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