One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Twin Cities Area
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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