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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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