When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

