Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Twin Cities Area
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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