Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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