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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown