Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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