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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Dead Good Walks
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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...

