The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

