The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Twin Cities Area
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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