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 Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

