In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Twin Cities Area
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
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 Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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