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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown