The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Twin Cities Area
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

