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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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