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
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
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
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

