Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Twin Cities Area
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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