For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Twin Cities Area
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

