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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston