The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Twin Cities Area
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

