Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

