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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

