University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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