The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Twin Cities Area
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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
Old Brewery In Preston