In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Twin Cities Area
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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