The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Twin Cities Area
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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