The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Twin Cities Area
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
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
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
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
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul