In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Twin Cities Area
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown