James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Twin Cities Area
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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