Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

