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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

