When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
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...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township 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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor 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