At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Twin Cities Area
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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