Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Twin Cities Area
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery sits at the base of a bluff along the Root River, a site known for its scenic...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill 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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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