Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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
Old Brewery In Preston