It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moving Old Hibbing
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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