As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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