On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

