The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

