In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Twin Cities Area
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

