Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
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
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

