The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City