The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Twin Cities Area
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown