As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown