The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Twin Cities Area
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown