The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Twin Cities Area
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

