James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Twin Cities Area
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
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
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

