The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Twin Cities Area
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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