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
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

