William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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