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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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