The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Twin Cities Area
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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