Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

