Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Twin Cities Area
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
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
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

