Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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