The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown