At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Twin Cities Area
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston