Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

