As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown