The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

