The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Twin Cities Area
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

