It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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