One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Twin Cities Area
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
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
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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