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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate 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 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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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