Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
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
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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