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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
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