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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

