James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Twin Cities Area
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Island Project In the fall of 1953, the peaceful quiet of the north shore just south of...
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

