The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

