Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
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
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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