In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Twin Cities Area
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown