The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Twin Cities Area
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
World-renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in an apartment on the second floor of this...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

