When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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