For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Twin Cities Area
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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