This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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 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
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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