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
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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