When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

