The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Twin Cities Area
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

