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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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