Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Twin Cities Area
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Island Project In the fall of 1953, the peaceful quiet of the north shore just south of...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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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?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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