James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Twin Cities Area
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

