The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Twin Cities Area
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back 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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...

