Haunted Minnesota

41 haunted destinations cataloged across Minnesota, spanning 25 counties. The collection features museum, outdoor, and theater — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.

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Minneapolis College of Art and Design campus building on Stevens Ave in South Minneapolis Minnesota

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Other Dark Tourism Site

Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Minneapolis, MN

Minneapolis College of Art and Design was founded in 1886 as the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts, affiliated with the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts (now the Minneapolis Institute of Art). The school moved to its current 2501 Stevens Ave campus in 1915; the Julia Morrison Memorial Building was completed in 1916 (architect Edwin Hawley Hewitt), with a 1974 expansion designed by Kenzo Tange. MCAD is an accredited four-year college offering BFA and MFA degrees.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Glensheen Mansion

Duluth, MN

Glensheen is a 39-room Jacobean Revival mansion on twelve acres of Lake Superior shoreline in Duluth, built between 1905 and 1908 for mining magnate Chester Adgate Congdon. The University of Minnesota Duluth has operated the estate as a historic-house museum since 1979. The site became internationally known after the June 27, 1977, murders of heiress Elisabeth Congdon and her night nurse Velma Pietila.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Darling Cemetery and memorial site on Highway 10 north of Little Falls, Minnesota

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Darling Church Site and Darling Cemetery

Randall, MN

Darling Church was founded in 1893 as the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling by Scandinavian homesteaders in Morrison County, Minnesota. The church held its last service in 1969 and stood abandoned until it was destroyed by arson in March 2017. The adjacent Darling Cemetery remains in use.

$ All Ages Family: High

Exterior of the Foshay Tower — Art Deco obelisk-form skyscraper in downtown Minneapolis modeled on the Washington Monument

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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Foshay Tower (W Minneapolis - The Foshay)

Minneapolis, MN

The Foshay Tower is a 32-story, 447-foot Art Deco skyscraper completed August 30, 1929 by utilities magnate Wilbur B. Foshay (1881-1957). Designed by Léon Eugène Arnal of Magney & Tusler and modeled on the Washington Monument, it was the tallest building in Minneapolis until 1972. Foshay's utility empire collapsed weeks after the dedication; he later served three years for mail fraud. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and converted to the W Minneapolis hotel in 2008.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Exterior of the Minneapolis Institute of Art — Beaux-Arts main building by McKim, Mead & White opened 1915

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Museum / Historical Site

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Minneapolis, MN

The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) opened in 1915 as the public art museum of the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts. The original Beaux-Arts building was designed by McKim, Mead & White and has been expanded multiple times. Mia's encyclopedic collection includes more than 90,000 objects spanning 5,000 years. Among its signature spaces are several period rooms — wholly reassembled historic interiors transplanted from older buildings — including the Tudor Room (ca. 1600, England) and the Connecticut Room (ca. 1740, near New Haven).

$ All Ages Family: High

Exterior of the Turnblad Mansion — Châteauesque limestone mansion on Park Avenue in Minneapolis

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Museum / Historical Site

Turnblad Mansion (American Swedish Institute)

Minneapolis, MN

The Turnblad Mansion is a 33-room Châteauesque limestone mansion built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan J. Turnblad, his wife Christina, and their only daughter Lillian. Designed by Minneapolis architects Christopher Boehme and Victor Cordella, it cost $1.5 million (roughly $54 million in 2025 dollars). The family lived there only briefly before donating it in 1929 to found what became the American Swedish Institute. The mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

$$ All Ages Family: High

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Theater / Performance Venue

First Avenue

Minneapolis, MN

First Avenue began its life in 1937 as the Minneapolis Greyhound Bus Depot, a Streamline Moderne structure with shiny blue-brick exterior, checkered terrazzo floors, and on-site shower rooms. Allan Fingerhut purchased and converted it to a nightclub in 1970, opening as The Depot. The club became First Avenue in 1981 and gained international recognition through Prince's 1984 film Purple Rain.

$$ 18+ for most evening events; all-ages shows available Family: Moderate

Exterior of Cuzzy's Bar & Grill — historic Washington Avenue saloon building in Minneapolis's North Loop

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Haunted Dining / Bar

Cuzzy's Bar & Grill (Maurer's Saloon Building)

Minneapolis, MN

The building at 507 Washington Avenue North in Minneapolis's North Loop has served alcohol continuously since 1885, making the location among the longest continuously-operating drinking establishments in Minnesota. It operated as Louis Maurer's Gluek's-affiliated saloon from 1894 to 1944, then under various owners, and has been Cuzzy's Bar & Grill since 1995 under owners John Lee and Bobby Goral. Louis Maurer, a German immigrant, ran the bar with his wife Elizabeth and sons Fritz and Charles until his death by suicide on June 25, 1909 at the family's Medicine Lake cottage; Elizabeth then ran the saloon as the only female saloon-keeper in Minneapolis at that time.

$ 21+ Family: Not Recommended

Limestone ruins of the Washburn A Mill at the Mill City Museum on the Minneapolis riverfront

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Museum / Historical Site

Mill City Museum (Washburn A Mill Ruins)

Minneapolis, MN

The Washburn A Mill opened in 1874 on the Minneapolis riverfront and briefly stood as the largest flour mill in the world. On May 2, 1878 a flour-dust explosion destroyed the mill and killed 18 workers. A rebuilt mill operated on the same foundation from 1880 until 1965; it was gutted by an arson fire in 1991, and the ruins were stabilized for the Mill City Museum, which opened in 2003.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Exterior of Minneapolis City Hall — Richardsonian Romanesque granite municipal building with 345-foot clock tower

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Museum / Historical Site

Minneapolis City Hall

Minneapolis, MN

Minneapolis City Hall is a Richardsonian Romanesque municipal building designed by Long and Kees, with construction begun in 1888 and largely completed by 1906. It serves jointly as Minneapolis city hall and the Hennepin County Courthouse. The 345-foot clock tower carried the world's largest four-faced chiming clock when built. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Duluth — 2

Other Dark Tourism Site

Duluth International Airport

Duluth, MN

Duluth International Airport was established in 1930 as Williamson-Johnson Municipal Airport on 640 acres purchased by the City of Duluth in 1929. Renamed Duluth International in 1961, the facility now covers 3,020 acres at 1,428 feet elevation and operates as a joint civil-military field hosting the Minnesota Air National Guard's 148th Fighter Wing alongside commercial service and Cirrus Aircraft's headquarters. The current terminal, named for Congressman Jim Oberstar, opened in January 2013.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

SS William A. Irvin

Duluth, MN

The SS William A. Irvin was launched November 10, 1937, at American Ship Building Company in Lorain, Ohio, at a cost of $1.3 million. She served as the flagship of US Steel's Pittsburgh Steamship Division fleet from 1938 to 1975, hauling primarily taconite ore across the Great Lakes before retirement in 1978. The Duluth Entertainment Convention Center purchased the vessel in 1986 for $110,000 and refurbished it as a museum ship; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

$$ 18+ for ghost hunts; all ages for museum visits Family: Moderate

Saint Paul — 2

Second Empire Joseph Forepaugh mansion on Exchange Street in St. Paul's Irvine Park

Haunted Dining / Bar

Forepaugh's Restaurant

Saint Paul, MN

Forepaugh's Restaurant occupies a Victorian mansion built in 1870 by Joseph Forepaugh, a St. Paul dry goods merchant whose company generated half a million dollars annually by 1864. Forepaugh retired, traveled to Paris with his family, and died by suicide in 1892. The building later became a boarding house, was shuttered in 1973, reopened as a restaurant in 1976, and underwent extensive renovation before reopening in 2024.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Museum / Historical Site

Wabasha Street Caves

Saint Paul, MN

The Wabasha Street Caves are sandstone caverns carved beneath the bluffs of St. Paul's west side, originally mined for silica sand in the 19th century. French immigrant Albert Mouchnotte converted them to a mushroom farm in the early 1900s. His son-in-law William Lehmann later transformed the space into a Prohibition-era speakeasy and, after Repeal, the Castle Royal — a 1930s supper club described by local newspapers as the 'World's Most Gorgeous Underground Nightclub.'

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Stillwater — 2

Weathered Victorian-era headstones on a wooded hillside at Oakwood Cemetery, Stillwater, Minnesota

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Oakwood Cemetery

Stillwater, MN

Oakwood Cemetery in Stillwater, Minnesota, was established in 1867 on a wooded hillside overlooking the St. Croix River. The cemetery contains burials of Stillwater's lumber-era founders, Civil War veterans, and several generations of Washington County families.

$ All Ages Family: High

Other Dark Tourism Site

Stillwater

Stillwater, MN

Stillwater, Minnesota was established in 1843 as a lumber trade center on the St. Croix River and served as the site of Minnesota's first prison, established in 1853. The Warden's House (1853) and the Water Street Inn occupy sites that have accumulated documented paranormal reports over more than a century. The original prison was demolished; the Warden's former residence is now a museum operated by the Washington County Historical Society.

$$ 13+ Family: Moderate

Annandale — 1

Thayer Hotel in Annandale Minnesota, 1895 historic three-story wooden hotel building

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Thayer

Annandale, MN

The Thayer Hotel in Annandale, Minnesota was built in 1895 after the original Charles Hotel on the site burned down. The building has operated continuously as a lodging establishment through various ownerships and configurations, briefly closing for COVID-related renovations before reopening as a restaurant and event venue. The hotel reportedly hosted Al Capone during the Prohibition era.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Anoka — 1

Historic Main Street in downtown Anoka, Minnesota, the late-1800s commercial district that includes the Jackson Hotel building housing Billy's Bar and Grill

Haunted Dining / Bar

Billy's Bar & Grill

Anoka, MN

Billy's Bar & Grill occupies the former Jackson Hotel at 214 Jackson Street in Anoka, Minnesota, built in the late 1800s by Swedish immigrant Charles G. Jackson. The building operated as an elegant hotel through the early 20th century before functioning as an unofficial brothel under Mrs. Jackson, then passing through multiple commercial uses including a French restaurant before becoming a bar and grill.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Blaine — 1

Blaine High School exterior, Blaine Minnesota

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Museum / Historical Site

Blaine High School

Blaine, MN

Blaine High School is a comprehensive secondary educational facility in Blaine, Minnesota, serving the Anoka-Hennepin school district. The school operates as an active community educational institution.

$ School hours for students Family: Moderate

Breckenridge — 1

The closed Cinema 6 Theatre on Minnesota Avenue in downtown Breckenridge, Minnesota

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Theater / Performance Venue

Cinema 6 Theatre (Hotel Stratford Site)

Breckenridge, MN

The Cinema 6 Theatre stood at the corner of Fourth Street and Minnesota Avenue in downtown Breckenridge, on the former site of the Hotel Stratford. The Stratford, built in 1913, was destroyed by an arsonist on January 28, 1977, in a fire that killed 16 people during sub-zero weather. The theater that later occupied the site closed permanently in June 2020.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Burnsville — 1

Former Gordmans wing on lower level, currently blocked off. The upper level hosts a Dick's Sporting Goods and is currently open.

Other Dark Tourism Site

Burnsville Center

Burnsville, MN

Burnsville Center opened in 1977 as a major retail shopping destination in Burnsville, Minnesota. The mall serves the Twin Cities metropolitan area with over 100 stores and dining establishments. Construction of the original facility involved standard commercial development practices of the era.

$ All Ages Family: High

Chanhassen — 1

Theater / Performance Venue

Chanhassen Dinner Theatres

Chanhassen, MN

Chanhassen Dinner Theatres opened in 1968 and operates today as the nation's largest Equity dinner theater, with four stages under one roof at 501 W 78th Street in Chanhassen, Minnesota. The complex is consistently ranked among the Twin Cities' top dining and entertainment destinations.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Crosby — 1

Outdoor / Natural Site

Milford Mine Memorial Park

Crosby, MN

The Milford Mine opened in 1917 on the Cuyuna Iron Range near Crosby, Minnesota, extracting high-manganese iron ore from depths reaching 200 feet. On February 5, 1924, a surface cave-in at the mine's eastern end breached a mud layer connecting directly to Foley Lake. The flooded in under 20 minutes, killing 41 of the 48 miners then underground — the deadliest mining accident in Minnesota history. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011 and is now managed as Milford Mine Memorial Park by Crow Wing County.

$ All Ages Family: High

Hastings — 1

Gothic Revival LeDuc Historic Estate above the Vermillion River, Hastings, Minnesota

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Museum / Historical Site

LeDuc Historic Estate

Hastings, MN

The LeDuc Historic Estate is one of the United States' best-preserved Gothic Revival residences in the Andrew Jackson Downing manner. William Gates LeDuc and his wife Mary built the Hastings, Minnesota home between 1862 and 1866 along the bluff above the Vermillion River. The estate is now operated by the Dakota County Historical Society.

$ All Ages Family: High

Hutchinson — 1

Harrington House, the sole surviving 1862 building in Hutchinson, Minnesota

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Haunted House / Historic Home

Harrington House

Hutchinson, MN

The Harrington House in Hutchinson, Minnesota, is the only town building that survived the September 4, 1862 attack on Hutchinson by Dakota warriors under Chief Taoyateduta (Little Crow) during the Dakota War of 1862. Local tradition holds that the house was spared because, as the largest in town, it was intended for Little Crow's own use after the war.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Jackson — 1

Rural Loon Lake Cemetery headstones near Jackson, Minnesota, with lake visible in background

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Loon Lake Cemetery

Jackson, MN

Loon Lake Cemetery in Jackson County, Minnesota was established in 1877, with the last recorded interment in 1926. Extensive vandalism stripped most headstones over several decades, until restoration work in 2018–2019 began to recover the grounds. A young woman named Mary Jane Terwillegar, who died in March 1880 at age 17, occupies the grave around which the cemetery's witch legend grew.

$ All Ages Family: High

Litchfield — 1

Historic Ness Lutheran Church, a white clapboard building from 1874 with the cemetery in the foreground

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Ness Lutheran Church & Cemetery

Litchfield, MN

Ness Lutheran Church was established in 1861 by Norwegian immigrant settlers in Meeker County and is the first organized Lutheran congregation in the county. The current church building dates to 1874. The cemetery holds the graves of the five settlers killed in the Acton Incident of August 17, 1862 — the event that triggered the U.S.-Dakota War — and has been a Minnesota Historical Site since 1970, added to the National Register of Historic Places in May 2025.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Mantorville — 1

Exterior of the Mantorville Opera House, a historic 1918 building on Fifth Street in Mantorville, Minnesota

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Theater / Performance Venue

Mantorville Opera House

Mantorville, MN

The Mantorville Opera House was built in 1918 after a fire destroyed much of the downtown, designed as a community arts and entertainment center. It has served as a speakeasy, silent movie theater, roller rink, and city hall before returning to its theatrical purpose. The Mantorville Restoration Association assumed management when the city could no longer maintain it; a major interior restoration occurred in 2005-2006.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Montgomery — 1

Montgomery National Golf Club in Montgomery Minnesota with fairways surrounding the cottonwood tree near the first hole marking the pioneer farmer's gravesite

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Montgomery National Golf Club

Montgomery, MN

Montgomery National Golf Club at 900 Rogers Drive in Montgomery, Minnesota, is an 18-hole course built on farmland once owned by Benedict Burii, a nineteenth-century pioneer settler. Burii and his wife are buried beneath a large cottonwood tree near the first hole — their grave was present on the property before the course was developed. The club has marketed itself as one of the world's most haunted golf courses.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Moorhead — 1

Weld Hall on Minnesota State University Moorhead campus, 1915 brick theater building currently under renovation, exterior view

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Theater / Performance Venue

Minnesota State University Moorhead — Weld Hall

Moorhead, MN

Weld Hall, built in 1915, is the oldest building on the Minnesota State University Moorhead campus. Named after Frank Weld, the building houses Glasrud Auditorium with its balcony and backstage spiral staircases. A $23 million renovation of the building began in 2023, with reopening projected for fall 2026. The university was known as Moorhead State University until 2000, when it was renamed Minnesota State University Moorhead.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

New London — 1

Outdoor / Natural Site

Sibley State Park

New London, MN

Sibley State Park was established in 1919 near New London, Minnesota, centered on Mount Tom, the highest point in the surrounding lake country. The 2,852-acre park preserves a wooded glacial landscape and provides camping, hiking, swimming, and interpretive programming year-round. The park's name honors General Henry Sibley, a figure whose legacy has prompted recent public debate.

$ All Ages Family: High

New York Mills — 1

Museum / Historical Site

New York Mills Regional Cultural Center

New York Mills, MN

The New York Mills Regional Cultural Center occupies a two-story commercial brick building constructed in 1885, originally built to house retail businesses including a general store. The building was later home to Karvonen Furniture for many years before being converted into a regional cultural center in 1992. The center has operated for more than 30 years offering visual arts, performing arts, artist residencies, and community programs.

$ All Ages Family: High

Pipestone — 1

Museum / Historical Site

Pipestone County Museum

Pipestone, MN

The Pipestone County Museum occupies the city's 1896 Old City Hall, a three-story Sioux quartzite building designed by regional architect Wallace Dow in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. The building originally housed city offices, the jail, fire department, the city's first public library, and a large meeting hall. It was deeded to the Pipestone County Historical Society in 1967 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

$ All Ages Family: High

Plato — 1

Small rural cemetery with an iron gate and tall pines surrounded by cornfields near Plato, Minnesota

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Ferguson's Cemetery

Plato, MN

Ferguson's Cemetery is a small, historic burial ground in rural Carver County, near the community of Plato and Norwood Young America, Minnesota. It sits at the intersection of Yale Avenue and County Road 34, framed by tall pines and an iron gate and surrounded by cornfields. The cemetery contains graves of early settlers, including several children.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Richfield — 1

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Adam's Hill

Richfield, MN

Adam's Hill is a public park in Richfield, Hennepin County, Minnesota. The location carries historical significance related to early agricultural settlement of the region.

$ All Ages Family: High

Rochester — 1

The sandstone caves at Quarry Hill Park, Rochester, Minnesota, hand-dug by Rochester State Hospital patients in 1882

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Quarry Hill Park & Nature Center

Rochester, MN

Quarry Hill Park occupies land that was part of the Rochester State Hospital farm from the 1870s through 1965. The City of Rochester purchased 212 acres from the state in 1965 for $21,200. The park contains hand-dug sandstone caves from 1882, a fully documented cemetery of 2,019 former psychiatric patients buried between 1886 and 1965, and the Quarry Hill Nature Center, dedicated in 1973.

$ All Ages Family: High

Sauk Centre — 1

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Palmer House Hotel

Sauk Centre, MN

The Palmer House Hotel in Sauk Centre, Minnesota was built in 1901 by Ralph and Christena Palmer on the site of the Sauk Centre House, which burned in 1900. Expanded in 1916 by architect Roland C. Buckley, the three-story brick building was the first in Sauk Centre to have electricity. Nobel Prize-winning author Sinclair Lewis worked two summers as a night desk clerk here before going on to write Main Street, in which he fictionalized the hotel as the 'Minniemashie House.'

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

St. Joseph — 1

Photo of Benedicta Arts Center at College of St. Benedict's

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Museum / Historical Site

Benedicta Arts Center at College of St. Benedict's

St. Joseph, MN

The Benedicta Arts Center was constructed in 1964 at the College of Saint Benedict in St. Joseph, Minnesota. The facility serves as a primary cultural and artistic venue for the college and surrounding community.

$ College community and authorized visitors Family: Moderate

St. Paul Park — 1

Rural road on Grey Cloud Island Township along the Mississippi River, Washington County, Minnesota

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Grey Cloud Island

St. Paul Park, MN

Grey Cloud Island has been continuously inhabited since at least 2,100 years ago, hosting Woodland mound-builders, Mississippian peoples, and the Mdewakanton Dakota into the 1830s. Named for Margaret Mooers (Marpiyahotawin, 'Grey Cloud Woman'), granddaughter of Chief Wabasha, the island saw European settlement after the Treaties of 1837 displaced the Dakota. The Grey Cloud Island Township Cemetery dates to 1873 and remains a private burial ground.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Taylors Falls — 1

Original 1884 jail building of the Old Jail Bed and Breakfast in Taylors Falls, Minnesota

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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Old Jail Bed and Breakfast

Taylors Falls, MN

The Old Jail Bed and Breakfast in Taylors Falls combines two nineteenth-century buildings: a saloon and brewery cave originally built in 1869 by the Schottmuller Brothers, and an 1884 jail that is the oldest in Minnesota. The complex includes a Prohibition-era tunnel and a former funeral-home space, all converted to private guest suites.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Two Harbors — 1

Exterior of Black Woods Bar and Grill at 612 7th Avenue in Two Harbors, Minnesota

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Haunted Dining / Bar

Black Woods Bar and Grill

Two Harbors, MN

The Black Woods Bar and Grill at 612 7th Avenue in Two Harbors, Minnesota has operated at this location since 1994. The building previously served as a boarding house and bakery, according to the Lake County Historical Society. Lake County records document approximately 16 property owners or organizations since 1900, none of which were orphanages.

$$ All Ages Family: High

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