The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Twin Cities Area
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...

