Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Twin Cities Area
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
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...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Not much has changed at this house in Duluth. It looks pretty much the same as it did when it was...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul