The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

