As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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