Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
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
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

