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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
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...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Ottawa
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul