At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Twin Cities Area
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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