The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
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 Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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