George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Twin Cities Area
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
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
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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