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