This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Little Falls Depot
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
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