In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Twin Cities Area
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn 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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor 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