In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Twin Cities Area
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
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
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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