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...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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