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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In 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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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