Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Twin Cities Area
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City