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
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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