St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

