When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac 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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
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...

