St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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