The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Twin Cities Area
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

