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
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

