Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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
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