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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

