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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back 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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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