Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

