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