The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a 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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

