James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Twin Cities Area
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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