James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Twin Cities Area
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
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
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 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...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

