Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Twin Cities Area
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
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...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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 Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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