Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Twin Cities Area
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
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...

