As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

