Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

