Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City