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 Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...

