At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Twin Cities Area
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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