As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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