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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

