In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

