The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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