It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Article Archive
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown