Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown