The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Twin Cities Area
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown