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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
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...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

