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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
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 youโre here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case youโre...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his motherโs death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

