The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

