As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

