One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Twin Cities Area
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown