Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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