At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Twin Cities Area
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 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...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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