On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Twin Cities Area
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

