The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

