Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

