As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

