This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

