The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
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...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
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