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 Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

