The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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