In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
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 Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 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...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

