Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Twin Cities Area
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City