The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

