Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Brewery In Preston
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

