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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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