On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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