On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
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
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

