It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...

