The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Twin Cities Area
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City