Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

