As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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
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