In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Twin Cities Area
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

