The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

