When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
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
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

