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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill 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
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
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
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
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