The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

