On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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