The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Twin Cities Area
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First 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...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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