One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Twin Cities Area
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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