On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

