The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Twin Cities Area
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
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
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

