The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If youโre here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case youโre...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his motherโs death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

