In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Twin Cities Area
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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