As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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