The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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