St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
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
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

