The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Twin Cities Area
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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