The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis was founded in 1907 by 39 of the city’s most influential women.This...
Twin Cities Area
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

