Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place 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 Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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