James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Twin Cities Area
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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