Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Twin Cities Area
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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