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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
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