James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Twin Cities Area
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

