The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Twin Cities Area
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown