Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
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
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
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
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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