The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Twin Cities Area
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

