The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown