In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
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