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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill 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 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?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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