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
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

