The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
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
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

