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...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Meyer School In St Augusta
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...
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

