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
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
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...

