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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Exploring Ottawa
Donโt you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If youโre here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case youโre...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
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...

