On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Twin Cities Area
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

