The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
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
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

