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

