The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
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...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
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
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

