James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Twin Cities Area
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

