Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

