Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
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...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
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...

