James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Twin Cities Area
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
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
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston