At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Twin Cities Area
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

