In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis was founded in 1907 by 39 of the city’s most influential women.This...
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
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
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

