Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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