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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
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...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
The Almelund Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
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