In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Twin Cities Area
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back 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
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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