In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

