The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Twin Cities Area
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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