Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

