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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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