The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Twin Cities Area
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
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...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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