In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

