William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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?
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
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