Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Twin Cities Area
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
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...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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