Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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