In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Twin Cities Area
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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