At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Twin Cities Area
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

