Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Twin Cities Area
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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