In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Twin Cities Area
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
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...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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