In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Twin Cities Area
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

