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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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