William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Franconia
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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