James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Twin Cities Area
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

