The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Twin Cities Area
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

