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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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