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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

