St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
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 Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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