At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Twin Cities Area
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

