Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Twin Cities Area
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

