The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Twin Cities Area
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
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