Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

