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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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