In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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