Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Twin Cities Area
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Dead Good Walks
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
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

