St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

