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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
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...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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