Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

