Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Twin Cities Area
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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