The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Twin Cities Area
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm 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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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