Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
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