In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Twin Cities Area
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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