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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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