Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Twin Cities Area
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
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...

