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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

