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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
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
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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