The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Twin Cities Area
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
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...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia 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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

