James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Twin Cities Area
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

