At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Twin Cities Area
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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