Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

