As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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