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
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

