At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Twin Cities Area
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Dead Good Walks
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In 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