Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

