The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Twin Cities Area
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
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...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
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
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
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