The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis was founded in 1907 by 39 of the city’s most influential women.This...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

