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 Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
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
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
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