When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital 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