Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Twin Cities Area
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul