When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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