At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Twin Cities Area
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

