In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Twin Cities Area
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

