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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back 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
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

