At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Twin Cities Area
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor 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