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...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Island Project In the fall of 1953, the peaceful quiet of the north shore just south of...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

