As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
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
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

