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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
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