The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
The End of the Line in Currie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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