James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Twin Cities Area
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

