Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
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...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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